[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

In 1996, an eon ago, Steve G. Steinberg wrote a prescient article in Wired magazine on the battle between what he called Bellheads and Netheads.

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See link for the rest........

[jokar]

Interesting bump.

[scan58]

The change came some 40 years back, when the U.S. defense department bought into a suggestion by electrical engineer Paul Baran, the son of a grocery store owner, that it build a data transmission network based on "packet switching." This was the Internet.

...but but but...you mean it wasn't al gore???

[AZLiberty]

Thanks to the negative and positive examples of Clinton and Bush 43, the electorate understands that presidential elections are as much about character as about politics. When things get tough, we want the President to do the Right Thing, not necessarily the right or left thing.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

I'll have to think on this for a bit. Interesting post.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks E.

[Milhous]

If it is true that our political thinking is being bent by constant streams of small, value-laden packets of data that we constantly remix into personal hierarchies, then paradoxically the "new" politics of Web sites such as Moveon.org or the Daily Kos are really Old School.

As we all know newfangled moonbat sites simply parrot tired Marxist trope essentially aping a big old mass media that first started talking down to "the masses" decades ago.

[Billthedrill]

Packet-switching, bah! It'll never work.